skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are two ways to think about stories like this: that they are Wisdom, or that they are tools for those who are wise. I prefer to think of them in the second way. The stereotypical Bible-thumping Christian thinks of the Bible as Wisdom. That is, it doesn't require much critical thinking or wisdom to apply. The Bible says X, therefore X is true in every situation and you should apply it to everything.

But I think in an oral culture it was more likely that these were tools for thinking. E.g. if your wise friend tells you this story (which you've heard before) and says, "I think in this area you're being the cat in the relationship," then that has some weight. But when a random priest says, "You're the cat in this area of the relationship," their priestly authority doesn't mean they are the voice of God and they are speaking infallible truth into your life. Your wise friend has more weight because you know from experience that they are wise and because they know you.

Basically, the story is a tool that is only useful to those who are wise. The story is worthless in the hands of a fool.
https://www.viator.com/North-America-tours/Submarine-Tours/d.... Looks as big or bigger than all of these
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Of course. And bone and antler, too. One of the primary techniques for manufacturing stone tools - shared by Neanderthals and probably other pre-human hominids - was (is?) using a piece of wood or bone, as the hammer. The wood is softer, but it's elastic, and it deforms when it impacts, and transfers the energy in a different way. The resulting tools are distinct, and the development of the soft hammer techniques might have been one of the first advances, beyond trying to make a rock with a sharp edge at all.

Very exciting to find actual evidence though. Organic implements almost never ever survive.
The sample size is the western world, and we're at 70% of obese/overweight so clearly seating on your ass all day long isn't good. The average american walks something like 3k steps per day and its their sole activity. The #1 death cause in the west is directly caused by lack of exercise. How can people be in such denial ? If you have a full time desk job there aren't enough time in a day for you to over exercise, every single second you'll spend doing anything other than seating/laying down will b an improvement

> You can't prove that ...

Dude, open your eyes, look around you, seeing 70%+ of people having a beer belly at 30 isn't normal, it isn't healthy, most people don't even hit the bare minimum recommendations, I don't need a mathematical proof, it's all here in front of us
Code review isn’t inspection, that would be testing - whether automatic or manual.

Code review is the feedback mechanism that allows quality control to improve the process, teaching the engineers how to do it right in the first place.
Nice try Mr. Rat Poison Salesman.
> I wonder how many are like me

The silent majority, given the numbers cited above and general consensus.

>I deeply appreciate your reply. This is extremely important.

Ditto.

>The wording is what it's all about. When we put it into terms like "pro-life"/"pro-choice" - it does nothing to address the hard realities which need to be addressed when writing law.

The "clump of cells" term is equally as provocative as "baby-killer"; remember to emphasize with both positions. Neither are wrong.

>We all keep getting played by yes/no, right/left, binary word game slogans. The realities are so much more complex.

Correct. But to clarify - there isn't one "player" controlling the strings (if only we could be so lucky,) but warring ideological/political/corporate oligarchs that have consolidated power as an emergent phenomenon of self-interested parties.

This settles into a duopoly, with periodic swings depending on macro-level events, as naturally both sides align with a "good" and the other "bad" in an all-relative social moral grandstanding power contest.

90%+ of abortions are essentially birth control.

The moral, social, political, biological, religious, physiological, cultural, and constitutional subjectivity of the matter juxtaposed against the objective nature of (current) (nominal) child-birth is easily the most difficult topic to reach common ground between the most vocal extremes.

All the while, most people agree late-term, medically unnecessary abortions are abhorrent.
Fedora 40 randomizes Mac addresses per Wi-Fi SSID
This assumes government spending is responsible and just. Taking someone's money to line the pockets of bureaucrats and paying inflated prices to government contractors isn't going to make me happy. There is too much corruption. If I felt tax money was being spent well, I might feel differently. Until the government can show they can be trusted with money, I don't see why they should be trusted with any more of it.

I'm not going to apply any morality to an individual spending money they earned. I am going to apply it to a government taking money through taxes. The government has a responsibility to do right by the citizens paying the taxes.

From what I've seen, most of the "tax the rich" people are assuming the government is going to spend the money to help the poor, or support whatever other causes they want... or more transparently, the money taken from the rich will go to them in some way. The reality is that probably won't happen. Even when the government does give out cash, like we saw during the pandemic in the US, look at what happened. A significant percentage of people ran out and bought stuff, costing more than what they were given. A concerning number took on significant debt (like a new car), as if those checks would keep coming. So the money went right back to people who own the companies, raising their wealth by billions, and the people ended up in worse debt than before the wealth was distributed. We see a similar pattern with lotto winners. It doesn't work. A government functioning like Robin Hood isn't the solution, we need education on saving vs spending, living within one's means, and being content with what one has. But these things are all bad for the economy, so there is little incentive for those in power to do it, so it falls on individuals.
How does

> a ton of additional complexity with a proven track record of CVEs

become:

> adding it in couldn’t hurt

?
Backstage is great at slowly migrating dysfunctional organizations into slightly less dysfunctional organizations. I deal with 30 years of random tech debt in a company with immense shadow IT (domains randomly registered, vendors randomly hired to do X, often nobody knows things are still needed, our zonefiles are a mess, unclear responsibilities with our team of 4 being the default fallback), and Backstage at least puts some semblance of insight into that entire mess and provides a way forward to formalize such processes. Also, putting documentation where developers commit to every day instead of a Wiki where it's out of sight / out of mind is very underrated.
It is tough to keep two widely different businesses under one roof. One is a mature, public B2C, and the other is a dev tooling startup.

Spotify should spin off Backstage as a separate company, providing the initial IP and funding and being the first client.

Many companies, like Uber, created a lot of useful infra, though they failed to monetize it. They could take a cut in the Chronosphere (M3) and Temporal (Cadence).

Much better than laying off people, though origin companies would need to be smart, without being too greedy.

Though the model is unproven.
...I mean, maybe there is some moral imperative toward vegetarianism. I don't see the connection with cannibalism; seems like you're just being a bit silly.

But I think we can make that decision without needing onerous and obstructive state infrastructure, so I don't think the comparison is particularly germane. Unless you are suggesting that it's the role of the state to stop animals from eating each other? (Isn't that the same impetus as suggesting it's the role of the state to stop data from replicating?)

Lastly, I think you've misunderstood the role of the free-rider problem in public goods, particularly in the application of building non-rivalrous markets; in fact, you have it exactly backwards.
Not sure why cash isn’t on this list. 90/10 split.

“ These rewards can be exchanged in our marketplace for gift cards, games and more.”
Careful there. By combining running and cycling, you’re 2/3 of the way to triathlons. And why suck at 1 sport when you can suck at 3?
Programming hasn't been niche in over 25 years.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LEU0254477200A
Dont forget they already said windows 11 will have complete keylogger and screen OCR for "ai search"

Because SOMEONE thought complete privacy rape is worth "when did i tell my friend about that dune movie?"

completely against everyone's will: absolute tracking

So now the hackers dont even have to do any real work in identifying juicy targets... just hack something, and now built in automated queries to the "ai search" will find everything good without the slightest targeted effort any more
So it’s like the scene in Silicon Valley, but in boats on the lake
Zen and the art of bicycle maintenance... a la Pirsig? Maybe, as she works, you could read her passages from the book about bringing quality to life through wrenching bikes, of all kinds?
If anyone wants to argue or discuss hypotheticals, how about this:

"Patient X's head was caught in a drop forge, and now they need to get four CAT scans a day."

How does HIPAA apply to this statement, how would you anonymize it, and how effective would those measures be against de-anonymization given the obvious rarity of the situation? Or is something like this simply never to be discussed?
IIRC the issue is that new common drugs for humans contain toxins that are deadly to vultures in high doses. One issue with just creating a vulture sanctuary around towers of silence is that it’s nearly impossible to tell if a person has had any of those drugs and if so how much. Plus in that culture cremation/other forms of disposing of bodies are essentially sacrilege because the idea is that having the body touch the earth, fire, or water would be a bad thing which is why they do sky burials in the first place so it’s not like they can just refuse burials.
Boring listicle. Don't bother reading.

>6. Install VLC

Yawn
I think the LLVM level doesn't work as it throws away too much semantic information, but much of the CLANG front end can be used via it's API.

There is a fork of CBMC called ESBMC that does this and many other changes: https://ssvlab.github.io/esbmc/documentation.html
Completely agree. Source: I build things for a company[1][2] which is a TRA and a QTSP (eIDAS parlance).

Two references which I promise will be interesting (re: qcerts and QES tooling):

- excellent open source library for working with PDFs and digital signatures (incl. PDF ones): https://github.com/MatthiasValvekens/pyHanko

- European Commission's DSS Tool (you can submit one PDF only, don't need both original and signed one): https://ec.europa.eu/digital-building-blocks/DSS/webapp-demo...

[1]: https://www.zealid.com/en/ - you can onboard remotely for free, download your qualified certs at https://my.zealid.com/en - upload, QES sign, download PDFs (all of these free) - or use our APIs to integrate into us (get in touch with us if you'd like the latter).

[2]: opinions are my own.
What do you mean by "sensible"? Spotify has playlists, but most listeners simply don't bother. Plus, it's obviously convenient for the platform to actually control what you're going to listen to next, so obviously they'd rather emphasize the "magic" auto-queueing (which, tbh, kinda works well-enough).
When Your Job Is 80 Miles Out at Sea, Getting There Is Half the Battle
https://www.nytimes.com/card/2024/05/03/business/energy-envi...
UseWat^2 [video]
if we do not maintain expertise in nuclear weapons then we will end up like Ukraine.
Maybe, but I'd be cautious about singing victory too soon. Since the pandemic, so many macroeconomic forecasts have been proven wrong (from "the sky is falling!" to "everything is great!") that I've become very skeptical of current forecasts.

In the past, there have been periods during which inflation has seemed to be under control, but actually wasn't! For example, during the "stagflation" of the 1970's, the inflation rate (w/o food an energy) dropped down and seemed to be under control -- twice -- only to jump back up again each time:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=1kT7i

Getting inflation under control has proven very difficult in the past. It took three long years of rising interest rates to end the inflation of the 1970's for good. Paul Volcker at the Fed had to raise interest rate to nearly 20% to accomplish it.[a] The 10-year treasury rate hit almost 16%.[b] It was very painful for a lot of people.

I think the right mindset right now is to "wait and see."

And make sure you have a contingency plan!

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[a] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=1mM6j

[b] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=1mM6m
Telling someone to "grow up" is ageist and dehumanizes little people. Being large or "mature" is normative. Implying that someone needs to "evolve" implies that simpler life forms are less valuable. You really should check your privilege and stop committing microagressions.
Autoencoder, VAE and latentspace for maze generation
I am in the South East too, but I see lots of vultures, but one weird? thing I noticed in the past 4 years is that I see them a lot more often in suburban areas/on sidewalks eating roadkill than I had seen them in the past (usually seeing them circling freeways or rural areas)
Can a standard linux distribution be configured as a network slug? I'm sick of companies forcing themselves onto people's private information without their consent.
The only thing this demonstrates is that the author has no clue about how these things work on Linux. There is no real security boundary between different processes of the _SAME_ uid, especially when controlling the parent process. The exact same "hijacking" can be done to literally any other tool, including sudo. Or you can take over the X11 session and sniff passwords and whatnot. Or heck you can just append alias sudo='mykeylogger sudo' into bashrc and go to the pub instead of having to wait for the right process to start at the right time. If you have write and execute privilege of a user, anything that user does can be compromised.

The reality is that this is just self-promotion from a grifter, and that's why it's happening on Twitter. If it was a real issue from a competent researcher it would have been reported via the appropriate channels, not on social media to feed haters and trigger the usual abuse and death threats while chasing impressions.
> So I wonder, is this just another clickbait headline?

No. As the article makes abundantly clear there’s plenty of carrion, it’s just poisoned. Nothing natural about it.
Integrals in calculous is pretty much the beginning!

Fair take in any case. Colleges today seem far more politicized (and expensive) than back in my day. The whole space seems ripe for disruption as a lot of people just want to learn without all of the associated baggage.
> There’s also this oily smell of AI and machine learning

Lovely phraseology - this definitely resonates with me, and is one of several reasons why any interest I might have had in working in tech has evaporated.
Ah, the fabled 100% uptime. A past boss of mine wanted that too once.
Assuming you serve that content out through a CDN a lot of optimization work will be handled there and customization should also be handled there. I’d be shocked if CDNs don’t allow you to do much/all of that out of the box.

Honestly though if this is an authenticated function and you have a small user base… who cares? Is there a reasonable chance at this disrupting any end user services? Maybe it’s not the best way to spend hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars.

Granted you’re an SRE so it’s your job to ideas this. I’d just push back on defaulting to dropping serious resources on a process that might be entirely superfluous for your use case.
Has anyone successfully implemented Backstage at their company? How'd it go?

We're looking at it for an internal platform serving ~50 engineers today, spanning mobile, backend, enterprise integrations, and ML teams. The hope is it'll make it easier to spin up new things "the right way" without e.g. ML PhDs having to learn Helm and K8s, plus other goodies like nice docs.
Right because an API is too abstract for copyright law, it has to literally be copied works.
I’ve always thought Backstage seemed like an interesting solution to existing god awful “solutions” many enterprise type companies subject their devs to. For example, PostHog, Swagger.
If furries like creatures with fur, skinnies would like creatures with skin.

(this was not a Starship Troopers [book] reference)
I’ve heard about 75-85/25-15, but just round it to 80/20.

Zone 3/Tempo sessions can help to raise speed so that Z2 is faster for the same intensity.

Obviously lower intensity workouts can go for longer and the high z5 stuff for fairly short intervals across short sessions.
They could have made small concessions and avoided so much of this. But every step of the way they act like a child throwing a tantrum, adhering to an interpretation of the rulings that obviously don’t fall within the spirit of the rulings. My 10 year old pulls these kind of stunts, ever careful to do what I said, knowing exactly what the intent was.
I wish my professors had been more like you, or at least approached it with similar reasoning.

Writing c++ boilerplate for a function on paper and losing points for leaving off a ";" both made my blood boil and heavily shaped my views on how programming is taught in college (or at least the one I went to). I also just didn't care much for c++ since I was much more interested in web development (PHP/JS at the time). I used to write all my c++ programs in PHP then once I got them working I'd convert them to c++ to submit to the teacher.

I have no issues going lower-level if needed, I've written Perl (which I consider under python/PHP personally, not sure what others think) when it makes sense for the task (log parsing) and written a tiny bit of C here and there. Lower-level languages just require much more mental overhead for me whereas I can move much faster in a higher-level language and shorten my "Write code"-"See result" cycle which is important for me personally.
Beautiful pictures, but I felt that the post was lacking in mention of Post:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_F._Post
But this is so frustrating when you need to contact a company and you don’t have the info they want.

A while back we wanted to have the physical landlines from the phone company removed from our house. I found the company, but every contact form asked for my account number. If I didn’t provide one, Id get redirected to their sales team because obviously I was trying to create a new account.

I don’t remember how I got it fixed other than a lot of time on hold.
This assumes government spending is responsible and just.

No it doesn't for the same reason the statements you made that I replied to don't. I used your same reasoning and applied it to government. Are you going to be consistent or not?
But you see other people just 'get it right' the first time every time without even having to use the language. They just 'know' everything up front, or... read it in a forum 8 years ago and it's perfectly crystalized. It's only the lowly PHP plebes who need an editor to help them get things right the first time. Syntax, method naming, parameter order, return values - these are 100% completely solved problems that never cause anyone ANY problems ever in any other language - this is 1100% a PHP-only problem. Can't you understand? The entire rest of the programming world is excellent except for PHP.

Yes... it's a bit /s, and perhaps is a bit much, but... this "my language has no defects!" attitude from everyone crapping on PHP is tiresome. I've been programming as a hobbyist since the 80s, and professionally since the early 90s. Nothing is perfect, everything has warts, the holy wars suck. I've been with PHP since early 96, and have worked in ASP, .NET, Python, Ruby, Java/JVM, Node/JS, and a couple other stacks. They all suck in more than a few ways.

For those of you who only ever work in one tech for years without needing to touch anything else... and get to perfect your parameter-order-fu down to a reflex... great. I'm routinely having to switch between different SQL and various server-side languages, and even then ... 'obvious' things like array/string handling have different syntaxes I have to jump between in a single day. (postgresql arrays are 1-based, not 0-based, IIRC). You know what? I deal with it and move on. IDEs/tools help. Memory helps. Nothing is perfect.
if i was in an environment without internet, i would be using open source software.
> which must be in the running for one of the largest bodies of code that must run as root

Have you ever heard of the Linux kernel? Or X11 (which does traditionally run as root until systemd made it possible to not do so)?
We use it, and apparently it’s great. It didn’t help with the silos though because I don’t have access.
I think the Rust project strikes a pretty good compromise for this issue: rebased linear branches with conflict-free merges onto master. When you make a PR, the CI sees whether your branch can be merged onto master without causing a conflict; if not, it directs you to rebase your branch onto the latest version of master. This check is repeated for all open PRs whenever the master branch is updated.

Once it's satisfied that your branch can be merged, it runs a subset of the tests, and throws an error if they fail. This way, even if you do rebase your branch, its latest commit will still be tested. (Having intermediate commits pass tests is encouraged but not required.) Finally, it regularly takes groups of 8 or so accepted PRs, tries merging them all in sequence, and runs the full test suite on the result. If it succeeds, the merge commits are pushed to master; if not, a human operator gets it to try again without the offending PR.

By your terminology, I suppose this would count as running CI on all the "invented" commits, and forcing PR authors to fix all their tests. But in practice, it's not too odious, since most PRs don't conflict (unless you're touching half the codebase), and any test failures from a non-conflicting change will get caught by the merge step.
I'm not disagreeing; they should do this.

But I would like to point out that these days, releasing an app as mobile-only really doesn't disenfranchise that many people.

• iOS apps can be installed and used pretty transparently on Apple Silicon Macs;

• and Android apps can likewise be installed and used pretty transparently on both Windows 11 (via Windows Subsystem for Android) and on ChromeOS.

So by choosing to release an app as mobile-only, you're "only" excluding people without (even a very old!) smartphone, who are also:

• people with only Intel Macs;

• people with only Windows PCs, who are stuck on a previous version of Windows;

• or Linux users.

That's... not too many people at this point. (And most of them live so far behind the curve that they wouldn't be interested in installing some bleeding-edge mobile app anyway.)
I've used this before. It's pretty great. Also used as the backend for Kani I believe (Amazon's Rust formal verification tool).